Compositional methodology and statistical inference of family relationships using genetic markers 

    Galván Femenía, Iván (Date of defense: 2020-07-10)

    The present thesis is a compendium of three research articles produced between 2015 and 2019. The three articles are different contributions based on compositional statistical methodology and statistical inference of ...

    Continuity and interpolation techniques for computer graphics 

    González García, Francisco (Date of defense: 2013-04-11)

    In Computer Graphics applications, it is a common practice to texture 3D models to apply material properties to them. Then, once the models are textured, they are deformed to create new poses that can be more appropriate ...

    GPU parallel algorithms for reporting movement behaviour patterns in spatiotemporal databases 

    Valladares Cereceda, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2013-07-18)

    In this thesis we treat and solve various problems related to movement pattern detection by designing and implementing parallel algorithms using the GPU. We first propose a GPU pipeline based algorithm to report the ’Popular ...

    Gràfic de control T2 de Hotelling per a dades composicionals 

    Vives Mestres, Marina (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)

    Compositional data are defined as vectors of components that represent parts of a whole and contain relative information (e.g. %, ppm, mg/l...). CoDa are widely found in chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries among ...

    High dynamic range content acquisition from multiple exposures 

    Ramírez Orozco, Raissel (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)

    The limited dynamic range of digital images can be extended by composing different exposures of the same scene to produce HDR images. This thesis is composed of an overview of the state of the art techniques and three ...

    Imaginación visual: nuevo paradigma en interfaces cerebro-máquina 

    Llorella Costa, Fabio Ricardo (Date of defense: 2023-06-01)

    This doctoral thesis focuses on the study of the use of visual imagery for the construction of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) non-invasive. Although the construction of brain-computer interfaces is already is a reality, ...

    Information theory techniques for multimedia data classification and retrieval 

    Vila Duran, Marius (Date of defense: 2015-07-09)

    We are in the information age where most data is stored in digital format. Thus, the management of digital documents and videos requires the development of efficient techniques for automatic analysis. Among them, capturing ...

    Medical imaging applied to teaching and meat science 

    Xiberta, Pau (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)

    Medical imaging has greatly progressed to become an essential technology in current clinical processes. However, advances in diagnostic imaging have not been applied to the same extent to other fields such as education and ...

    Medical imaging techniques for the analysis and measurement of composite materials 

    Julià i Juanola, Adrià (Date of defense: 2022-11-11)

    The purpose of this thesis is the research and development of methods, algorithms and tools for the analysis of composite materials. In order to improve their properties, one must employ specific techniques in order to ...

    Multimodal visualization based on mutual information 

    Bramon Feixas, Roger (Date of defense: 2013-07-15)

    Medical imaging and 3D volumetric visualization are a standard routine for patient diagnosis and treatment. Multimodal visualization plays an important role in medical diagnosis and treatment, because it makes findings ...

    New solutions to control robotic environments: quality control in food packaging 

    Banús Paradell, Núria (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)

    Machine vision systems and artificial intelligence techniques are two active research areas in the context of Industry 4.0. Their combination allows the reproduction of human procedures while improving the performance ...

    Noves tecnologies i aplicacions innovadores per l'ensenyament d'assignatures d’empresa en estudis d’enginyeria 

    Rafart Serra, Maria Assumpció (Date of defense: 2020-11-20)

    The present doctoral thesis explores an e-learning proposal fruit of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with the objective of improving students’ learning experience. The proposal aims to facilitate the ...

    Parallel spatial data structures for interactive rendering 

    García Fernández, Ismael (Date of defense: 2012-10-24)

    The main question explored in this thesis is how to define novel parallel random-access data structures for surface and image spatial data with efficient construction, storage, and query memory access patterns. Our main ...

    Perceptual information-theoretic measures for viewpoint selection and object recognition 

    Bonaventura Brugués, Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-07-10)

    Viewpoint selection has been an emerging area in computer graphics for some years, and it is now getting maturity with applications in fields such as scene navigation, volume visualization, object recognition, mesh ...

    Realistic urban layout modeling from real data 

    Pueyo Vallet, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)

    Computer Graphics applications community has big interest on urban modeling and especially on designing complex and realistic cities and buildings. This topic is interesting for film, video game and urbanism industries. ...

    Reformulation of constraint models into SMT 

    Palahí i Sitges, Miquel (Date of defense: 2015-12-10)

    In this thesis we focus on reformulate constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) into SAT Modulo Theories (SMT). SMT is an extension of SAT where the literals appearing in the formulas are not restricted to contain only ...

    Scheduling through logic-based tools 

    Coll Caballero, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-07-15)

    Scheduling problems consist in determining how to execute the activities of a project in order to satisfy some requirements. Such problems are ubiquitous nowadays in industry and services, but finding solutions of scheduling ...

    Serious games for health and medicine. A cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) case study 

    Wattanasoontorn, Voravika (Date of defense: 2013-12-11)

    Serious games are video games designed to provide specific expertise, knowledge and skills to the player, going beyond pure entertainment. In this thesis we present a classification of serious games for health and medicine ...

    Serious games for visually impaired players and to promote first-aid protocols 

    Rodríguez Benítez, Antonio (Date of defense: 2020-06-16)

    Serious games are games designed to entertain and also to teach or transmit some knowledge. They are present in many areas such as military, health, manufacturing, education or medicine, just to name a few. One of their ...

    SMT techniques for planning problems 

    Espasa Arxer, Joan (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)

    Automated planning is a discipline in the field of Artificial Intelligence that can be described as the process of finding a course of action that achieves a specified task. In other words, it focuses on reasoning about ...